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How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics : evidence from Fukushima and three European countries

Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2015

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns, well-being, risk aversion, and political preferences in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. In these countries, overall life satisfaction did not significantly decrease, but the disaster significantly increased environmental...

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How the distribution of after-tax income changed over the 1990s business cycle : a comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - 2007

Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread … Germany and Japan. …

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Natural disaster, policy action, and mental well-being : the case of Fukushima

Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - 2013

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the...

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Delay in marriage and income inequality in Japan : the impact of the increased number of unmarried adults living with their parents on the household economy

Shirahase, Sawako - 2009

The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan's total fertility rate in … relation to the household, we will examine the economic disparities of unmarried adults living with their parents in Japan in ….K., U.S., and Taiwan, compared with Japan. The paper consists of twoparts. First, I will examine economic disparities among …

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Evolution and determinants of rent burdens in Germany

Backhaus, Teresa; Gebers, Kathrin; Schröder, Carsten - 2015

The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the public at large. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we provide rent-income ratios over more than two decades and show how they change with households’...

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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude

Hille, Adrian - 2015

It is still widely debated how non-cognitive skills can be affected by policy intervention. For example, universal music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries. These are intended to give children from poor families the...

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Working-time mismatch and mental health

Otterbach, Steffen; Wooden, Mark; Fok, Yin King - 2016

Nationally representative panel survey data for Germany and Australia are used to investigate the impact of working-time mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours) on mental health, as measured by the Mental Component Summary Score from the SF-12. Fixed effects and...

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Non-take-up of student financial help : a microsimulation for Germany

Herber, Stefanie P.; Kalinowski, Michael - 2016

This paper estimates the percentage of students who do not take up their federal need-based student financial aid entitlements and sheds light on determinants of this behavior. Against the background that educational mobility in Germany is low although extensive student financial aid for needy...

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Intergenerational correlations of extreme right-wing party preferences and attitudes toward immigration

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Siedler, Thomas - 2016

This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...

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Econometric analysis of ratings : with an application to health and wellbeing

Studer, Raphael; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2016

We propose a new non-linear regression model for rating dependent variables. The rating scale model accounts for the upper and lower bounds of ratings. Parametric and semi-parametric estimation is discussed. An application investigates the relationship between stated health satisfaction and...

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